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The end of free speech in Europe

“While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.”

The surprising author of this quote is Vladimir Lenin, speaking just before the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. But then again as George Orwell pointed out, under communism, “freedom is slavery.” Orwell also wrote in the same paragraph that “ignorance is strength,” for those in power, especially.

It is arguably one of the most pernicious, anti-democratic, and authoritarian documents to be published since the European Union’s inception. It is effectively an instruction manual on thought suppression.